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All Garter Stitch All The Time!

 

Julia

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I should have used more of the pink on the long side.  However, by the time I got to the long side, I had seen the entire run of Dexter and really needed to move on.  Don't get why people liked that series so much, but whatever.

A good blocking helped make this scarf a more wearable size.  Pre-soak, I had some doubts.  However, spending about 18 hours pinned to the living room rug worked wonders on it. 

Not unlike your mom.

This is the second pattern I've made from the three pattern ebook, and, I gotta say, love.  Now I'm looking at the 3rd pattern and wondering what yarn I could use for it.  Sort of thinking handspun would work well.  Stella is the pattern for those of you who are curious and/or stalking me.  This might be a good chance for me to use some of that undyed sock yarn I've got stashed.

Hmmmmm...

Happy Wednesday, people!

Checking In...

 

Having a fabulous long birthday weekend, thanks.

Ran up to Reno on Saturday and spent some time with PinkyD.  After a fabulous lunch, we went to her LYS, Jimmy Beans Wool.  Maybe you've heard of it.

I needed yarn for the new Ysolda Along that started today.  I'm still trying to finish the decreases on my hat but the Along is in my plans for today.  Along with painting my nails and maybe a nap.  Oh and maybe getting caught up with email but I know that's crazy talk.

I've also done some organizing of the yarn stash and am once again trying to adopt No More Yarn as my personal mantra. 

Meanwhile, I'm waiting for yarn to arrive in the mail.  Yeah...

Are you having a long weekend? 

Are you having a good time?

Are you knitting along, too?

Links added for the benifit of my Stalker in AZ, who needs all the help she can get and the people of Buffalo, who will never figure shit out.

Once Upon A Rhinebeck...

An Into The Whirled batt and braid were purchased for a spinner, who lives on the wrong side of the country and has fabulous friends.  At the end of the day, the fabulous shopping friend realized that she had gotten the batt and merino/silk/yak braid in the same colorway.  There was laughing and reassuring noises because it's just fiber.

When the box of sexy lovely stuff arrived on the wrong  coast, the spinner with the fabulous friends realized that she wasn't so much in love with batts any more.  While lovely and charming, the spinner just wasn't that into batts.  No hard feelings, of course.  Sometimes, things just don't work out.

The spinner with the fabulous friends mentioned the batt on the Twitter Machine and, next thing you know, the batt was jetting off to a new life full of love, happiness and being petted while being called George.

At some point, the spinner with the fabulous friends sat down and turned the 4 oz merino/silk/yak braid into 636 yards of chain plied yarn.  There was much rejoicing in the living room, and amusement over the fact that the colorway was too perfect because the yarn and the fabulous friends really are the Cat's Pyjamas.

The End

Another Go...

Exactly two years after I blogged my handspun $5 In Paris, I cast on for another one.  This time, with store-bought yarn.  Drama-free, solid colored, lovely, happy, friendly, store-bought yarn.

The colour is slightly off, of course.  I haven't gotten far with it yet.  Still working on the increases, but I already love it.  This one, I will wear.  This one will not have the color issues or karma problems that the other one has.

I had planned on starting a different sweater yesterday but I don't exactly understand how a swatch can get smaller with blocking.  I shall ponder that oddness while I knit happily away.

Possibly while wearing these...

I cast on thinking they would be for a friend.  Then I got into the knitting and realized there was no way in hell I was giving them away.  The yarn is soft and lovely.   While the colors are not my norm, I am charmed by them.

Naturally, this means that the yarn has been discontinued...

Still spinning away on that beautiful Bullseye Bump.  Coming to a place of peace about needing another blanket on the bed, and thankful that things are looking up.

Lovely Monday

Fabulous day for a fake rage-making holiday Monday.  At least, the wind stopped.

Isn't it fabulous?! 

 

This arrived in the mail over the weekend.  It is a Stitched By Jessalu wedge bag.  She did two different prints for Halloween this year, and this is the one that I fell for.  Not hard to see why.

Had a wonderful, supportive chat with a much loved friend this morning.  We don't talk enough but, when we do, I always come away feeling better for it.  Now that all the (bad) crazy, judgy, and downright dreadful is gone, it's a joy to have the people I have in my life.  This morning was a wonderful reminder of how lucky I am and how loved.  It's that whole thing about making your own family in adulthood.

If the weather apps are to be believed, it's looking like summer is over.  Time to switch around the wardrobe and ponder going boot shopping.  No switching of bedding until next month because I don't trust the weather apps.

There are still man socks happening...

Okto Socks

The color of the yarn is off but we're not surprised by that.

Love the pattern!  Love the socks!

I had to add 2 stitches on each side to get the right stitch count but that was an easy thing to do.  I knit this pair of socks toe-up with CCSRs and a sewn bind off.  The chart is fun, easy to follow and easy enough to memorize.

Planning on re-watching the new Lewis & Hathaway mystery and perhaps spin a bit.  Yes!  The new upright for my wheel arrived over the weekend also.  Changing things around wasn't too involved and I'm back in the spinning business.  Good thing with Rhinebeck this weekend..

Hoping your Monday is happy, too.